Partial notes on Beck's Risk Society from a few years back that seem apt today
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2/ "the globalization of doubt"
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3/ those affected by risks are now, for the first time, not only those alive at the time of decisions made
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4/ In the risk society, the unknown and unintended consequences become a dominant force in history & soc..
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Risks are open to social construction and inequitably distributed
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6/ Civilisational risks are a bottomless barrel of demands, unsatisfiable, infinite, self-producing...
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7/ one can POSSESS wealth but one can only be AFFECTED by risks, they are...ascribed by civilisation
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What emerges in the Risk Society is the political potential of catastrophes - exceptional becomes norm
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nice, never heard of this. Seems to anticipate taleb's fragility

